Recs if you like Run Posy Run (Underboss Insurrection, #1)...

hey google, play sports car by tate mcrae 🏎️ theres just something about the risk of exhibitionism and contorting bodies in a confined space with rapidly decreasing oxygen 🥵

from secret hookups in a parking lot to saying fuck it cause you cant wait to make it to a bedroom, these romance books all feature explicit car scenes 🏁

theyll drive stick while you ride the stick🚦

books where they lick their fingers clean 👅

as always, taking any and all recommendations!

Every year we pick 10 books that we think rise above the rest. These are the 70 we've picked since 2019.

Updated to include our Best of 2025 picks.

tortured/traumatised MCs where the love interest endeavours to eliminate the root cause of their trauma by any means necessary (some may eventuate in death) ⚔️ protective mode, activated ⚔️

⚠️ CHECK YOUR TRIGGERS

Dark romances that have morally grey MMCs and med to high spice levels. Some stories are darker than others, please check trigger warnings.

Open to suggestions, please comment

Romances so good that we're jealous of people who haven't read them yet, because we know what they're in for.

Save a shirtless, bare-chested man! Each one is in dire need of a shirt! 👕 Those covers of romance novels are not very warm, although under the covers, it could be hot. Steaming, in fact. Maybe even scorching. 🥵❤️‍🔥

(Other editions exist where the book cover has a shirtless man, but this list only includes those shirtless on PB. ) Enjoy! 😉

A list of the Top 100 Romances of the past 50 years as voted on by the Magnificent Firebird community.

Favorite Romance Novels

Romance novels where he fucks up and she's like byeeee... and then he's like, "What have I done??"

Hurt men with guns and trauma, where violence is frequent, feelings are inconvenient, and love is somehow the solution

Reddit made me read 'Against a Wall' and now I am obsessed.